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1CigarettesU n hurt I nsecticides i{ . .j~ ~1{~.~ t-f1:,...y:.N^ J i<_t t4t~.Y"fi4Yf~i !e I .ti~ . :':-RALEIGH fAPI - A North food by the Food and Drug Ad. inistration . Ke11er said a person mrould have Io inhale, and retain,, the smoke rom a pack of cigarettes a day or 250 years before he approved levels which might be considerec harmful. "Even with the best available chemical t'echniques,"' the report continued, "it has not been possi- ble tb detect even traces of Endrin from the smoke of an entire car- ton o6 cigarettes. "Further research on chemical control has revealed that certain of the newer experimental insecti. cides are heat degraded' during flue-curing or smoking, resulting in an insecticide-free tobacco Carollna State College study has .•;.ptuducedi . results indBcatingthat chemical and biological tobacco insect killers are not harmful to ` cigarette smokers. • Dr. Kenneth R: Keller, director of tobacco research at the co4- lege, said Friday4he two chieflin- seot killers lued by tobacco farm- ers were harmless in cigarettes. Keller's announcement coincided with a new, grant of $16,738 by the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health~Serviee, to eontinue the study, The iaterim report dealt with TDE and Endrin. . The let'eis of TDE found in com- mercial cigarette smoke are mmre than four tinnes !ess than the sevJ, en parts per million permitted onismoke.' ~ o o3s4 SrL'1 DIEGO o:rIOAr San Die;o, Caliifonnia I'loveroer 5, 1,5;• m©M ig , CanCer : iTie Held Unproved Smokin;z as aa cauco of 1un21should; share the 61 a m e,' " canrerlias not beeni prot-ed concfusioelY. a surgeon said ~ ~ Slecer }-ester-~ - d a v: D r. charles B: ° P'u e.-~.t n tt^. a~ ~, YYY~ profe -or o f, sunger9, at the 3 Cnicersitnof Illinois,. s a i d even medical - c e s e a.r ch* ./ ers are di ~ vidrd thopin~Ni ~ tons~ on~ a~ lit:k~~ Pnestow bettt•een~ tobacco and 1~u~,n gg cancer;. ACS has ]iuKed smoking to -"Iflung Irritat:on rontrib~ Iltittg car.cer, but Puestotvsaid utrs to. Iungcancer,auto-~~ the opinion isnot unanimous mobileesliawt iumes on oth•-among, membersofthe re- er air potlutants possiblylsearch committen.. ~~r~o 3~43-s3si~ „ ~~ Tf~ ,II ! YORK TB•>ES DUllUffH Yb^dS-TRIr3UNr New York, New York ~Aeeember 8,.1959 Puestow said. - . Puestow, a pipesmoker, wasinterviewed att the 13th annual Postgraduate. Assem- blc at County H o s p i it a l. About600. physicians and'surv geons are attr,nding the as- sembly., presented under the auspiecesotthe Physicians. Research Foundation~ of t h e. County. Hospital. It end'stoday. Puestuw is a :nemberof the resear,,h committee of the Americen Cancer. Societyy for thc. Illii-isdivision. The Ifuluth; Minnesota'.,~" `~ ' Novetaber 13, 1 959'., ;:1. . . lS B ~ ~~~~C `I -TOOTHPASTE ADS •~' Anti-C~gare Head of DentallAssociation Outlines a Plisn to Control 'Deoeptive" Claiins More gavernmentt controlµas •thttedayvewhatwaa soug yesr.ory described a's deeeptiveadvertis- •,fng practices on television and fn prinG by the toothpastein- dustry: ~ ' Dr. Pauli H. Jeserich, presi- dent of the American Dental Association„ disclosed here yes- terday the attack:formulated by the group. It callsforc qLegistation:by. Congress per- mdtting. Federal agencies to~ eliminate such advertising. .~ qAcode of fair practices to, be set up with the cooperation.n of the Federal Trade. Commis- sion~or the Food and'.Drug,Ad- ministcation. . qScientific proof of adtrer- ttsed claims. This would be submitted~ tbtheF. T. C., so that the tiurden of proving the Items retarded or cured human afiments wrould bee shifted from the Government to ~ the manu- facturers. - "Sadly, noneofthe ammonf- ated, chlorophyll,.. anti-enzyme and now germ-killing products has lived up to, its advance ' notices,"'Dr. Jeserich said- •"Phee reason for these claims isnot dtffic;:.a to figure out: The pub- lic spent $230,000,000 on dentri- flces ih1l75$, which was n'early 100 per cent' morethan: in the previous year." . . Dr.Jeseach. addressedtheftrsG general session of thee thirty-fifth Greater New York Dentat. Meeting at the Statler. Hiltorr siotel. Lungcancerg and cigarette smoking w-as the subject of a paper delivered yesterday by. Dr. Valy Dfenkin, aphysicianat, the Unirersityof Pennsyl-vania's Henry Phipps Institute. He arguetl that a victim must possess a hereditarypredispo- sition too cancer: •'Mild irritation producedibyy long.yearsof constant smoking would liberate aa growth-pro- moting factor in sltghtlyIn- iured cells constantly exposed to, smoke." said Dr. 3ienkin. "Thisretease of the factorr would belnnncuous unless.that particular, individual contains a herediaryfactor rendering him susceptible to thee development'of cancer. The combination would favor lung cancer., "'Probablyobnoxious fumes aueh ass onee encounters In In- dustriali localities w'ould favor the same type ofdevelopment." ~ Resolulion . f nC.'' Duluth area doctors last ' nii;ht spproved by "a clear majority" a resolution sug~ `r Rc::ing that anyon2 tt+ho can stop smoking should rlo,soa : . -Thee action was tatkcn after rnnsiderable discussion at a " mceting oftheSt. Louis County Medicat societyy in St:. Luke's hospital. An estimated 70phlsi- rians: a~~ttended.: The resolution st:dcsih'at "the itizcns of this area be adtiscd t:iat islh^opihinn: of the mem- henhip., .,fhrrt. Ifie dn,i::pr of cigarct smokin; bcimpres>ed on ya:ane pcople tchn.haccn not yct', started y smoke.. and that cigaret smo.4-crs. ttho cart slop smokin.- do~so,.or chan,-c-.tn the use ntf tob'accoo in some othermanner.l' I . .. ...,•d TO ALERT*PL'BLIC A spokesman for the aroup dMscribed thee resotutton as a' "public relations effnrt on~ the part' of' the profcxsionn to, alcrt Ihe public to a possible conncc-n tiort betHeen smoking and lung ^ancec'• . . . ::: g:; ;ij .lsked wh'cther any strone op, iosition . to thee measure tcas, ex- ' prr,sed. the spokesman i replied: ~ "I9tercwas qu:tc a littlodis-. . cussion bouvpro and cun." ..,y_ He said manycf thuse opposed; to the resolution ergucd thalt evidence of acausatne relation-: shin betuecn smokm andcan-i cerisnot sutficient • =--+ ;Some doclo ; expressed con,~~ cern thati a public statement either favorina, ordisfavnrihz ;moking, x'ould be misleading to the public. NOACTUALCOI'NT - Voting aas conducled by..a shownfhands., No actual I count was takrn, but.onc socirtymem- brr said "a c!ear majority" tatared Ihcresolutinn., Another membcr, said the vote ttas r.ot: cln:e. The socirtv spokesman stresscd that th'c purposee of, the action was"morclyto draw attention as aa matter of public informa- tionn"tha,t lhcrc Issome esidrtur to support the thenrv. Ih:,t smnk. in:;; is.a causative fatlnr in lung . canccr: A considerablhO nntnunt of, smokewac Fcneratcdin the a:udi-turiumfrnm mcmorrs' own% cigarct>• hr addrdJ